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I think you'll find, with a bit of experience, that the keyboard controls are wonderful, especially on laptops. You can navigate and edit your entire document without leaving home row and using a mouse.
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J. PolferAug 14 '09 at 20:29

use ":behave mswin" if you feel like its too foriegn, or, put that in your ~/.vimrc to make it do it that way, you can always put it back using ":behave xterm" if you change your mind. Furthermore, I find everyone should have at least a few mappings of their own to fine tune things, since not everyone learened to type exactly the same way, especially for those who use Dvorák keyboards or other odd layouts (me, at one point, using a modified numpad for editing numeric only documents)
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osirisgothraAug 2 '14 at 16:17

The nice thing about that page is that it briefly discusses the various links it provides, so you get a sense of which are better or worse and why.

I would add that the best way to get comfortable with Vim is to use it exclusively for a bit. If you end up hating it, fine. Use something else then. However, the only way to train your fingers and brain is to use it. My fingers now do Escape :wq out of habit, even when I'm in a gui email client at work (instead of Mutt).

The first link is great. Thanks for that one.
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TelemachusAug 12 '09 at 0:10

Yup, read that first one a while ago. It's a good one :)
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SvishAug 12 '09 at 19:05

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The Cheat Sheet Tutorial is how I learned vi. Seriously. I printed out the cheat sheets, put them in front of my keyboard, forced myself to type "gvim" when editing my files, and referred to them as I wanted to do various things. I spent about two weeks per cheat sheet, and got the hang of it.
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J. PolferAug 14 '09 at 20:28

Reading the manual page for Vim is nearly zero help for a beginner, since it primarily talks about opening Vim on the command line. Vim's own internal Help is very good, but even that is not a sane way to learn the editor initially. In this case, doing beats reading. Read a short tutorial and edit with it, or use the vimtutor program to do both at once.
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TelemachusAug 1 '09 at 13:19